Photographer's Note

A picture who seems to be from the old time. But it was taken in 2000, at Sucre-Bolivia. It is a government Office during lunch-time. Behind me, you can not see it, it was a computer with internet and I could give news at home...It was nice./jr

sharpness and cropping are open to improval, but this in an important document for the change in work life. Lots of different typewriters, partly manual and in sizes which we called travelling typewriters, partly the bigger electrical ones. Texts were really hammered onto paper, giving them physical reality. And when copiers were not available yet, one major task for the secretaries was to copy them by re-writing. Of course, the identity between original and copy had to be stated through signature by some official...